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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When was the Ford Model T introduced?
2. What term means to make uniform or similar, as in composition or function?
3. What people does Boorstin assert were able to express, ritualize, and create heroes, in Chapter 2 - Section II?
4. In what year did Karl Baedeker start his publishing company?
5. Established by Boorstin, what is the second way pseudo-events can overshadow real or spontaneous events?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Boorstin relate of technology and the sciences in Chapter 2 - Section II?
2. What does Boorstin write can be mass-produced today, in Chapter 2 - Section I? Why?
3. Who was Thomas Cook? What industry did he expand?
4. What does Boorstin write all tourist attractions share, in Chapter 3 - Section IV? What effect does this have on travelers?
5. How did Conrad Hilton establish his hotel empire? Where was his first hotel built?
6. What subject does Boorstin address in Chapter 1 - Section V? How have pseudo-events distorted image?
7. What comparison does Boorstin make between celebrities and heroes in Chapter 2 - Section IV?
8. How was the second story a pseudo-event in Boorstin's example of "the leak" in Chapter 1 - Section IV?
9. How does Boorstin compare travel of the past with the present, in Chapter 3 - Section I?
10. What has psychological analysis done to the old heroic form, according to Boorstin?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss Boorstin's distinction between "folk" and "mass" in the creation and recognition of heroes.
Essay Topic 2
Describe the impact of the development of the hotel and motel industry in America. Where and how did Conrad Hilton establish his first hotel?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss the impact of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph McCarthy on the pseudo-event in American politics.
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